Panama - Abu Gesha GN-1620 | Submerged Anaerobic Natural - 100g - Archived

Origin

• 🇵🇦 Panama· Boquete

Tasting notes

Character

• Experimental
  50
• Funky
  40

The cherries for this lot were hand picked at the optimum maturation point, then hand-selected and floated with mountain spring water. The whole cherries went through a first phase of sun pre-drying on elevated beds for 48 hours then a second phase of a dry anaerobicAnaerobic fermentationCherries or depulped seeds ferment in sealed, oxygen-free tanks. Produces intense, unusual flavors — cinnamon, bubblegum, boozy fruit — that divide opinion. process for 96 hours in closed grain-pro bags submerged in spring water. After the fermentation was completed, the cherries were transferred manually to the elevated beds to be sun-driedNatural processThe whole cherry is dried with the fruit still on the seed. Gives heavier body and big fruit flavors — think berries and wine — sometimes with a fermenty edge. for 25 days. More about Abu Coffee Panama ABU COFFEE was named to honor the memory of José Guillermo Luttrell Tedman, the third generation of coffee producers, and to continue his dream of achieving what he considered the best-balanced coffee cup; a GeishaGesha (Geisha)A rare, jasmine-and-bergamot scented variety originally from Ethiopia's Gesha forest, made famous by Panama's Hacienda La Esmeralda. Routinely the most expensive coffee at auction. raised with the highest standards of quality. ​ That is why “ABU” (short for Abuelo, grandfather in Spanish), as his grandchildren used to call him, represents the legacy of this visionary and passionate lover of Boquete and specialty coffee that we want to preserve for the generations to come. ​ We have been working with the current producer, the younger José Luttrell for a few years and have visited his farm, and gotten to know his family.